Synopsis :
Hera Pheri is a story about innocent desires and desperate actions.Shyam (Sunil Shetty) comes to town, expecting to get a job as a bank employee. His father who had worked at the bank had died in a fire accident and the bank has promised to give Shyam a job as compensation. When Shyam inquires about the jog, the Bank Manager tells him that there is a complication because Anuradha Panikar's (Tabu) father had also died in the fire accident and that she wants the job at the bank too.Shyam decides to wait in town until he receives further notice from the bank. He finds some accomodations at Babu Rao's (Paresh Rawal) apartment and meets another guest named Raju (Akshay Kumar). Shyam, Babu and Raju all have big debts and are desperate for money, but they accidentally receive a phone call that gives them the opportunity to make a fortune.Kabira (Gulshan Grover) a known criminal mistakenly calls Babu Rao's apartment. Kabira has kidnapped the granddaughter ofa big industrialist and demands a ransom from the industrialist. The trio pretend to be the industrialist and they promiseto pay the ransom. They then call the industrialist and pretend to be Kabira. They demand twice the amount of money from the industrialist and act as the middleman in a very dangerous game.